Mike Bagwell writes poetry and fiction
A Collision of Soul in Midair from bottlecap press! Poem of Thanks: The High Priestess from ghost city press! and Poem of Thanks: A Court of Wands from Metatron Press.
This site collects various publications, including the work itself if the publication is now unavailable, as well as a full book, Or Else they are Trees, and various design and publication work.
It is also the internet home for the Ghost Harmonics reading series.
Mike Bagwell is a form of mutual antagonism towards the sky, a writer, and software engineer out of Philadelphia. He received an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence and has work published or forthcoming in Action Spectacle, ITERANT, Sprung Formal, Annulet, Texas Review, Tyger Quarterly, trampset, Heavy Feather Review, HAD, Bodega Magazine, THRUSH, and others. Some editors have kindly nominated him for a pushcart.
He is the author of the chapbooks Poem of Thanks: A Court of Wands (Metatron Press 2025), A Collision of Soul in Midair (Bottlecap Press 2023), Or Else they are Trees (El Aleph Press), and micros When We Look at Things We Steal their Color and Grow Heavy Under their Weight (Rinky Dink Press 2024) and Poem of Thanks: The High Priestess (Ghost City Press 2024).
He runs a reading and music series Ghost Harmonics in Philadelphia. Find him on this site, @low_gh0st, or playing dragons with his daughters.
2 Poems in Common Measure
The first time I was afraid of the future / we had arrived at, I was swatting a text / like a mosquito. I do the same to snow, / which is actually a dream insect, / but too beautiful to look at.